Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 260 Perfect Ending! (Long chapter, please subscribe and vote!)

Inside Alice's ring.

Gustav, who had already advanced to the third ring, was extremely smug.

It roared to the sky, its sound waves sweeping across the land.

The Wind and Thunder Wyvern and the Crimson Netherworld Bird circled in the sky, watching with great force.

Both of them were already at the third ring level, and were pets that Li Wei frequently used in battle.

The emergence of Gustav, a newcomer to the Third Ring Road, has made them feel a sense of workplace crisis.

Especially the Wind and Thunder Wyvern, he has been with Li Wei for decades, but he has always been at the peak of the Third Ring and could not make any progress.

Although Li Wei frequently extracted their blood essence, his diet was always plentiful, and he often concocted special medicines for extraordinary creatures to promote growth and replenish their blood essence.

Li Wei has always believed that the reason these guys can't advance is definitely not because of his exploitation and exploitation, but because they themselves don't work hard enough!

If you want a little sweetness in life, how can you slack off!

"See that? Gustav is already at the third ring. This is the kind of pet his master needs most. You guys had better learn from Gustav..." Levi said.

Gustav came to Livy's side.

"Master, after advancing to the third ring, I seem to have awakened some inherited memories. I need some time to digest them."

Its voice echoed in Li Wei's mind.

"No problem. Before you digest, let me draw some blood for testing. This will help you grow, and I can monitor your health at all times," Li Wei said.

"Yes, Master."

Li Wei immediately took out a large vat used for storing blood, used the Crimson Dragon Iron Cutter to make an incision in Gustav's body, and began to draw blood.

"Master, draw more, I can still manage," Gustav said.

"No need, three tanks are enough. You should rest now." Li Wei patted Gustav's head and fed it some high-quality sea monster meat.

Gustav was arguably Leviathan's greatest contributor to the cause.

Although Leviathan has advanced to the second ring, his starting point is too low. Li Wei estimates that by the time this guy reaches the third ring, he will probably already be at the fifth ring.

So Leviathan has now become nothing more than an artificial fountain spectacle within Alice's Ring, responsible for spraying water, while Leviathan only periodically grinds some powder from his horn to make medicine.

"Speaking of which, I subdued Gustav in 1043, and now, eighty years have passed. I've gone from a newbie just entering the second ring road to almost entering the fourth ring road."

Gustav, on the other hand, was already at the peak of the second ring when he was captured, but now, after eighty years, he's only at the third ring. It'll be very difficult for him to reach the fourth ring in the future, unless he encounters a major opportunity.

Among the extraordinary creatures currently in existence, Li Wei only has one fourth-ring Earthworm, the Drilling Dragon Earthworm.

The three rings include the Fiery Blood Earth Dragon Beast, Gustav, Wind and Thunder Wyvern, and Crimson Netherworld Sparrow.

There are many more in the first and second rings, but apart from the Nightmare Crown Lizard, the others are not very useful to Li Wei.

However, these extraordinary creatures were all more or less Li Wei's benefactors, so he kept them.

Sometimes when he meets someone of the opposite sex, he will even arrange a relationship for them.

"Once my weapon crafting skill reaches level five, I should be able to repair the Alice Ring on my own. At that time, the space will expand further, making it even more suitable for their growth."

Li Wei's consciousness left Alice's ring.

"My mental strength is already 190 points, just 10 points away from perfection. Then I'll liquefy and advance to the fourth ring, ready to start working on the Succubus Healing."

If I can capture a succubus alive, then as long as I can gather all the other materials, I can continuously refine fourth-circle potions. That way, when I run out of money, besides going to the dark wizard, selling breakthrough potions is also a way to make money.

While the profits from black magic are enormous, there are always risks involved. Besides, Li Wei has already exhausted all the black magic profits in the outer ring area he's familiar with.

With that in mind, Li Wei shut down all the formations in the wizard tower.

In the secret chamber, the Mind Flayer is released.

As soon as the Mind Flayer appeared, he knelt before Li Wei, his whiskers drooping, a sign of his submission.

"Do you have any way to get Miraa out of here?" Levi asked.

"Master, do you want to make a move against Miraa? She definitely has Soret's tracking mark on her, and she has been kept imprisoned by Soret, basically just a tool for Soret to satisfy his desires... It will be difficult for me to get her to come out," the Mind Flayer said.

"So, to capture Miraa, we have to get past Soret?" Levi pondered.

"That's how it is at the moment."

Li Wei pondered to himself that Soret was already a fifth-ring wizard, and among the fifth ring wizards, he should be among the top tier.

Even if Li Wei killed several fourth-ring experts, he wouldn't be so arrogant as to confront a strongman like Soret head-on.

Relying on Solette's formidable strength, the Thunder Dragon family has become the overlord of the Seventh District of the Inner Ring over the years.

Soret not only possesses excellent elemental talent, but also has a second talent, [Heart of Thunder], making him a natural-born member of the Thunder faction.

"Let's wait and see. If we can buy the breakthrough potion at the Witch's House or Hades City, then we won't make it ourselves."

Although it's a bit of a pity, Li Wei can't think of a way to break the deadlock for the time being.

Today is the day of the 18th Round Table Conference. Li Wei started the meeting and brought in the knights who were scattered all over the world. Blood Knight and others sat down at the round table.

"Blood Knight, what's the situation on the human realm? Tell me about the Twilight Temple and the Forsaken Lands," Li Wei asked.

"Commander, everything is normal at the Twilight Temple. However, some time ago, a [Crypt Wizard] from the Forsaken Lands attempted to invade the temple but was annihilated by the great formation... Then, a top-tier Grand Knight went into seclusion recently and has the potential to break through to the Legendary level."

"A cave wizard?" Li Wei asked.

"Yes, this is a saying that has been passed down in the church. They call those strange people who possess magic in the Forsaken Lands 'Crypt Wizards.' It is said that these wizards live deep underground in the continents and oceans of the Forsaken Lands to avoid the corruption of dark power, so many of their organs are different from those of normal wizards," the Blood Knight explained.

"It seems that some ancient wizards were left in the land of the forsaken for some reason and did not enter the realm of the unbelievers..." Li Wei analyzed.

"Emperor Mu, how about you? Is there any news about the [Extreme Cold Land] that I asked you to inquire about?" Li Wei asked.

"Commander, as far as I know, in the Snow King City of the Frozen Realm, there is a cold pool that never freezes, called the Eye of the Ice Emperor. The water in the pool is extremely cold, and even a third-ring wizard's defensive field cannot stay in it for long. The frost elemental power in it is quite concentrated, so it was taken over by the city lord of Snow King City, a fifth-ring wizard, who leased it out and rented it out at high prices as a place to cultivate, making a fortune," Mu Di said.

"I see."

For Li Wei, money is not an issue, as long as that place can help him advance to the fourth ring faster and more successfully.

Now, with the imminent emergence of the Dark Tower, both sides in the war between the Black and White Wizards have tacitly ceased large-scale warfare.

Li Wei has already heard the news that the teleportation channels between the various realms of the faithless will be gradually unsealed in the future.

Some passages from the realm of the unbelievers to the human world have been reopened.

It's just that the Endless Sea hasn't been unsealed yet, since the dark wizards there are relatively powerful.

After the meeting, Li Wei logged off.

In the days that followed, he continued his cultivation in Hades City, waiting for his spiritual power to be completely perfected.

……

Time flies, and a year has passed.

The year 1121 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the Month of Flowers.

The 90th year of the Great Expedition.

In the dark void, far away from the plane of Nora.

There is a strange plane, an ordinary plane, where everything is a sphere.

However, this plane is like a huge well, with crystal walls forming the well walls.

To be precise, it should be a funnel-shaped well running across the dark land, extremely narrow at one end and widening as it goes down.

At the narrow end, a dark, gaping opening jutted out from the darkness, swallowing everything around it.

This is one of the most powerful and terrifying places in the multiverse.

For thousands of years, war and bloodshed, slaughter and destruction have been the main themes here.

This is the abyss!

Because of its layered structure, which seems endless, it is also known as the "bottomless abyss".

No one knows how many layers the abyss has, not even the demons themselves.

The wizards tentatively determined that the Abyss had 666 levels, because Sauron had personally reached that level before finally stopping.

Demons are synonymous with destruction; they revere chaos and abhor order.

Compared to demons, dark wizards are nothing more than a group of lawless beings.

Even the demon lords find it difficult to completely subdue the demons below them, big and small, unless they are enslaved by magic.

Things that are too powerful are often dragged down by themselves, and the abyss is a prime example.

Because the will of the entire Abyss is in chaos, the demons are not only waging "external blood wars" by invading other planes, but they are also waging "internal blood wars" within the Abyss.

The demon lords fought each other endlessly, enjoying themselves immensely. On one hand, they relied on devouring and killing other demons to increase their power, but on the other hand, they derived pleasure from it.

To become an Abyss Lord, one must at least be a Level 6 High Demon, even if one is only a Lord of the first level.

The first layer is located at the narrow opening of the funnel, with the smallest area. The area increases as you go down... and of course, the demon lord becomes stronger with each layer.

Generally speaking, after the 500th floor, the strength of the Abyss Lord begins to approach that of a Grand Wizard, and after the 600th floor, Abyss Lords comparable to legendary wizards will gradually occupy the area.

These beings, as powerful as gods, fear neither heaven nor earth, and the gaze of the abyss is never directed toward them.

Faith cannot be spread here, and the gods do not want to provoke the abyss.

And now, a sky city soars above the blood-red sky of the six hundredth level of the abyss.

Sky City was severely damaged, yet it still stands strong.

At the top of the Wizard Tower.

The Blue Sage, Luther, stood with his hands behind his back.

The wizards below looked exhausted; some were fearful, while others were excited.

Hermann and Stella are no longer spherical.

Over the past thirty years, Hermann has used parts he brought from the mechanical graveyard to transform himself into a five-meter-tall mechanical creation with a dragon-like head and wings on his back.

Stella, on the other hand, transformed into a beautiful giant snake with a slender body and a body covered with some kind of emerald green metallic armor plates, but the snake's head resembled a dragon's head more.

This new look is infinitely cooler than the previous iron ball shape.

Not only that, their strength has also improved. Some time ago, Stella directly strangled a level three demon with her body.

Herman and Stella quickly became celebrities in Sky City.

They are known as the "Steel Dragon Couple".

Hermann's design wasn't something he made up; it came from the mechanical sage's blueprints.

This mechanical creator designed a series of cool and powerful mechanical beast blueprints.

Hermann's model is called "Iron Wing Tyrannosaurus".

Stella's model is called "Steel Sea Dragon".

Their prototypes all come from the hybrid dragon race.

However, these mechanical creations are far more powerful than ordinary hybrid dragons.

It was precisely because of this that the steel dragon couple followed the legendary wizard Luther all the way, and with this legend leading the way, they lured the terrifying [Dark Insects] to the 600th floor.

"To be honest, it's worth dying here. I, Kakarta, have been to the Abyss before, even the 600th floor. Even a great wizard wouldn't be able to get here, right?" A fifth-circle wizard laughed.

"It's been so tough. Thirty years of hard work and a journey through six hundred layers of the abyss have finally allowed us to escape the pursuit of those dark insectoids. Those guys should still be fighting the Abyss Lord up there. The strength of that insectoid being is still inferior to that of the Deep Blue Sage," Herman remarked.

The Dark Insects were a name given by Luther.

Because these insectoids seem to have all originated from the dark lands.

Luther watched the chatter of these wizards who had survived the ordeal, his expression still grave.

"Just one Zerg army is so troublesome, and there is even a level 10 being in it. It's unimaginable how strong this terrifying civilization is in its entirety... It may not be inferior to the Abyss."

The wizard civilization started too late. Although it developed rapidly, it was still too immature compared to those ancient races and civilizations that were naturally powerful.

It was truly unbelievable that Lord Soren had reached floor 666. It took me quite a while to defeat the lord on floor 600.

However, the Abyss regenerates too quickly, and it may not be long before a powerful demon lord is born in the blood battle to fill the vacancy of the 600th floor lord.

In some ways, the will of the abyss may be the same as the [mother hive will] of the dark insectoid race; it is He who is stimulating and bringing about all of this.

Therefore, I suspect that Lord Soren stopped after reaching the 666th floor because he discovered this pattern.

No matter how many demons or abyss lords you kill, you can't eliminate them at their root.

Because above all demons and demon lords, there is a supreme will, and that is the true... abyss.

That level is beyond what wizards can measure by common sense; it is far beyond level ten.

After all, according to current historical research, Lord Soren had already surpassed level ten before he disappeared. Even he felt powerless, so how powerful must the enemy have been?

Perhaps only when someone can truly penetrate the entire abyss and reach its deepest point will they be qualified to understand its true secrets.

suddenly.

In the darkness, a powerful and familiar will descended upon the 600th floor.

Luther's expression changed.

"The will of the Mother Nest has returned..."

The next moment, another chaotic and violent will descended upon this place.

This was a clash that even legendary wizards couldn't comprehend; it was a battle from another dimension.

"Everyone, go inside Sky City. I'm going to pull you into my demiplane."

Luther said.

The wizards rushed into the city.

With a wave of his hand, a deep blue light appeared, pulling Sky City into it.

Deep Blue Half-Dimension.

This is Luther's demiplane, and like the Endless Sea, it is azure blue, as is the sky.

It felt like stepping back into the wizarding world.

"Is this the legendary demiplane? It has no sense of boundaries and no idea how big it is. It feels like a small secret realm." Herman exclaimed.

This is not a secret realm relying on the prime material plane, or a subspace like a spatial ring, but a true nascent plane.

Legend has it that a demiplane can grow continuously, and theoretically, a demiplane has the potential to develop into a true plane.

Even if it's just a small plane, it's still a miracle, like the creation of the world by the gods.

Stella, the steel sea dragon, swam in the sea, gazing towards the center of the ocean where a wizard's tower stood.

A truly towering, deep blue wizard's tower.

It was as if this wizard's tower, like a pillar, supported this world.

On the wizard's tower, a benevolent face, like that of a deity, appeared.

"This is my demiplane. You can cultivate normally here. Next, someone will introduce you to my [Demiplane Rules]. Remember to abide by them, otherwise, you will be regarded as intruders by the demiplane rules and eliminated," Luther warned.

After saying this, everyone fell silent and obediently found a place to begin their practice.

Meanwhile, outside, taking advantage of the clash between the two supreme wills...

The Blue Sage immediately used legendary magic to tear apart the barriers between each level of the abyss and headed towards the 599th level.

Two supreme wills clashed, leaving no time to attend to him.

Now, it's time to go back!

……

Hades City.

The past year.

With ample financial support, Livy's meditation aids never ran out.

My mental strength has been steadily increasing every year.

Meanwhile, the materials for the [Purgatory Ghost Slaying Array] have been prepared.

Li Wei immediately began crafting the magic array.

Li Wei had high hopes for this battle formation, which had cost a huge sum of money.

The crafting difficulty is also much higher than that of "The Glory of the Four Kings".

However, in the end, Li Wei successfully refined it without any major incidents.

Inside the Wizard's Tower.

In front of Li Wei, there were twenty-four magical arrays that resembled war drums floating in the air.

The surface of the war drum is engraved with twenty-four different patterns of hellish demons.

Of these twenty-four war drums, four are the key points of the formation and need to be presided over by a shaman. The others have no requirements and can simply be carried on one's person.

"Each wizard is in charge of one array eye, and a total of four wizards are needed. Their cultivation level must be at least the second ring. If it is too low, they will not be able to preside over the third ring array."

After so many years of development, the Psionic Academy should be able to recruit the necessary wizards.

If all else fails, we can just kidnap a few people from the Wizarding World.

Li Wei was eager to return to the Ancient Saint Plane to test the power of this magic array.

The attacks from the twenty ancient saints of the Elder Council were amplified and transformed by this magic array, so even an ordinary fifth-ring wizard would not dare to take them head-on.

In this way, the Ancient Sage Plane can rest easy for a long time.

"However, the elemental power in the Ancient Saint Plane is not as concentrated as in this Starry Sea. I'll finish perfecting my spiritual power here before going home to take a look."

After two years of massive consumption, including drug use, magic arrays, and daily expenses, Li Wei still had over two million Tai Shi in his reserves.

It feels so good to have money.

Suddenly, a tremor came from Livy's wizard tower.

He rushed out of the wizard's tower and found two figures fighting and chasing each other in the air, under the pressure of the Hades City's anti-air formation.

"The Fifth Ring Wizard... looks like he's trying to steal the key to the Dark Tower again."

Li Wei saw that one of the wizards was emitting light.

He shook his head.

News about the Dark Tower is now circulating among mid-level wizards outside of some major organizations.

This made the conflicts between wizards even more frequent.

"It seems the rumors are true. There are no Yuanhun Wizards guarding Hades City anymore, and the city lord is most likely in seclusion... Otherwise, fights like this in the city would never happen."

The two fifth-ring wizards gradually disappeared into the distance.

Argenta watched all this with lingering fear, and said with envy in her eyes, "Flying and disappearing into the ground, they are capable of anything... When will I be able to have even a tenth of their strength?"

"You are now at the peak of legend. Once you take the second step of becoming a knight, you can learn my [Blood Qi Wings] technique. From then on, you can also soar through the skies." Li Wei stroked the white wolf's head, enjoying the comfortable feel.

The white wolf nuzzled against her affectionately, occasionally letting out a low hum.

"I heard that a potion that can help you break through to the fourth ring has been put on the shelves. I need to hurry up and check it out."

Li Wei chanted the incantation and entered the witch's house.

He went to the witch's shop immediately to see if they had any potions to help him break through to the fourth ring. He'd always missed out before; everything was sold out.

He had to bribe the witch at the witch shop with a large sum of money to get her to open a... back door for him.

Today, we finally gave him a chance.

Getting past the fourth ring road is really not easy.

Therefore, even in a giant organization like the House of Witches, a fourth-ring wizard is considered upper-middle level, a fifth-ring wizard is upper level, and a spirit wizard is upper level.

"Beautiful Miss Linda, I heard that a breakthrough potion has been put on the shelves..." Li Wei rushed over and said with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Levi, I notified you as soon as it was put on the shelves." Linda the Witch was the saleswoman at the Witch Shop.

It is said that her mother was a fifth-circle witch from a witch's family, which is why she was able to get this very good, leisurely job with only a third-circle cultivation level.

Li Wei immediately retrieved the information about the medicine.

[Deep Water Potion, a superior-grade third-ring potion, taken before mental energy liquefaction, increases the success rate by 8%. Price: 200,000 Tai Shi.]

"Only eight percent?" Li Wei frowned slightly.

"That's right... so the price is also very cheap, only 200,000 Tai Shi, after all, this is only a third-ring potion."

Those potions that can increase the success rate by about 20% are all fourth-level potions. There aren't many fourth-level alchemists in the Witch's House, not to mention that the raw materials for this level of potion are extremely scarce.

Given Lord Li Wei's talent of reaching the peak of the third ring before the age of two hundred, the success rate of taking this potion is definitely over 50%, so I think it's worth a try.

Sigh, if I had even a one-third chance of success, I would have gone for it without hesitation.

Linda the witch said enviously that although she was a descendant of a fifth-ring wizard, her talent was not very good, and her achievements today were all due to the resources her family had provided.

"Fine, this will do."

Li Wei was worried that if he missed this opportunity, he would never have another chance.

Anyway, 200,000 Tai Shi isn't expensive. Let's buy it first. If there's a better alternative later, we can resell this Deep Water Potion.

With the breakthrough potion, there will be no shortage of buyers; there will always be a market, and Li Wei will definitely not lose money.

Li Wei wanted to pursue a more stable breakthrough, but many ordinary third-ring wizards were lucky to have any potions at all, and didn't care whether the success rate was 10% or 20%.

"Neither this Deep Water Potion nor the Night Lady Potion that could increase the success rate by 20% at the Hades City auction a while ago can compare to the Succubus Potion, which has a success rate of nearly 30%. With my talent, the success rate of breaking through with the Succubus Potion is over 90%. Unless I'm extremely unlucky, it's very difficult to fail."

Li Wei analyzed the situation in his mind before leaving the witch's house.

Anyway, there's still some time before his mental strength reaches its peak, so he still has a chance.

He left Hades City to visit his teacher, Meryl, and the others.

On his way back, he saw the two fifth-ring wizards still fighting over the key in the distance.

There were some fourth-ring and third-ring wizards hiding nearby, risking their lives to try and snag a bargain.

"In today's wizarding world, resources are all obtained through competition..."

Li Wei underestimated the allure of the Dark Tower for ordinary wizards.

"We've truly regressed to ancient times. The council's order is a mere formality... There's no longer any distinction between black and white wizards. Without constraints, anyone can transform from a white wizard to a black wizard in an instant... And indeed, even if there were order, in the darkness where the light doesn't reach, how many of those so-called white wizards are truly white?"

For example, Li Wei himself walks on the edge of various gray areas. He knows very well that many of the things he does cannot be exposed to the light of day.

On the way back, Li Wei sensed that a wizard was following him.

"These days, even third-ring wizards are starting to have designs on me... It seems I've been too low-key in Hades City; everyone thinks I'm an easy target."

Li Wei quickly flew off into the distance.

Not long after, a strange wizard with bluish-green skin resembling tree bark appeared here.

"Hey, you're pretty alert, but do you think you can escape?"

Fifteen minutes later.

Li Wei returned to Hades City looking quite well.

He rushed back to the wizard's tower, closed the magic circle, and set up the restriction.

He took out a storage item and a bluish-green wizard's corpse.

"He's just a third-ring body-refining wizard who thinks he can rob me just because he's skilled in some concealment techniques..."

This person only had seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver in his storage space; he was extremely poor.

The artifact was only a second-level artifact, a type of artifact that Li Wei would not normally notice.

"However, this 'Tree Spirit Body Refinement Method' is a good body refinement method... It is a body refinement method of the life school, unlike the previous bloodline modification wizard, which does not require the transplantation of extraordinary biological organs."

Li Wei put away this method for future cultivation, to integrate with his Golden Witch Poison Body.

"This body of a body-refining wizard would be a good vessel for a mind flayer."

Li Wei released the Mind-Stealing Demon.

The Mind Flayer immediately took a liking to the corpse upon its appearance.

"Master...may I reside within it?" the Mind Flayer asked tentatively.

"This is what I prepared for you," Li Wei said.

"Thank you." The Mind Flayer's entire body became ethereal, then transformed into a beam of light and merged into this body.

With a tremor from the bluish-green corpse, it soon rose to its feet as if it had come back to life.

"This body is much better than my previous one," came the Mind Flayer's delighted voice.

After a transformation, the corpse became the appearance of a young man.

After sensing the situation, Li Wei discovered that the Mind Flayer's hidden abilities were truly impressive.

Once inside, he couldn't tell the difference between himself and an ordinary wizard.

Unless it deliberately exposes itself, it's estimated that even a fifth-ring wizard would have a hard time discovering the suspicious activity.

This is why Mind Flayers are so infamous across multiple dimensions.

Many wizards suspect that the higher-ups of the Wizarding Council have long been controlled by powerful mind flayers.

Li Wei used to dismiss these rumors as baseless conspiracy theories.

After witnessing the Mind Flayer's abilities firsthand, Li Wei felt that it might actually be true...

After giving the Mind Flayer a body, Li Wei let him leave.

The Mind Flayer has an important mission: to attend the Demon's Banquet and obtain firsthand information about the succubus and Soret for Levi.

He doesn't need mind flayers to fight for him; mind flayers aren't best at fighting, but rather at infiltrating enemy ranks and gathering intelligence.

After doing all this, Li Wei continued his cultivation in Hades City.

Although Hades City is relatively chaotic now, there's no need to start all over again if we go to other cities.

Besides, if anything happens, he can return to the witch's house; it's still quite safe there.

this day.

Li was on his way to repair the vehicle.

Relying on the power of the dead, they entered the world of ashes.

The sky, filled with ashes, reappeared before my eyes.

"It's been a long time since I've been here."

He remembered that the last time he entered Lion King City, he found himself in a place that resembled Lion King City but was not quite there.

This time, what appeared before him was the equally dilapidated and desolate Hades City.

"Does every place in the Nora plane have a counterpart in the Ash World...?" Levi wondered. "And what is the relationship between the Ash World and the Nora plane? Is it the other world? If it is, and the Nightmare World has invaded the other world, will the next step be to invade the real Nora world...?"

With many questions in mind, Li Wei walked out of the Wizard Tower. In Hades City, he could sense powerful bonfires burning in some of the mansions.

Those were all reflections of the powerful life force of mid-level wizards in this world. Some of the campfires clearly came from fifth-ring wizards, and even third-ring wizards looked tiny in front of their powerful flames.

Li Wei and they were not in the same dimension; these wizards could not perceive Li Wei.

In the center of Hades City stands a wizard's tower a hundred feet high; Li Wei remembers that it was the residence of the Hades City Lord.

At the highest point of this wizard's tower, there is a campfire that resembles the sun, sometimes expanding and sometimes contracting, seemingly in a state of instability.

"The only Yuanhun Wizard in the city... seems to be in seclusion due to serious injuries, just as rumored."

He came to the sea, which was the same as the sea in the real world, except that the sea here was covered with ashes.

"If that's the case, then this place is quite far from Windmill Village, where Owens is located. After all, Windmill Village is next to Lion King City on the Yellow Earth Continent."

When Li Wei returned to Hades City and went home, he found a twisted, thin, humanoid monster, half the height of the wizard's tower, lying at the entrance of his tower, staring into the building with its bloodshot eyes.

Fall to death!

Moreover, in terms of the level of danger, it may be comparable to a fourth-circle wizard.

Li Wei's Seed of Death roared, and black Death Power surged forth. At this moment, he seemed to be the master of this world.

The greatsword, formed from the power of death, slashed out, splitting the corrupted in two.

It did not die, but instead reunited and charged towards Li Wei.

The level four Corruption meant that even Li Wei's invincible power of Death Ashes couldn't kill him instantly.

"True Form of the Fiery Dragon!"

In this gray world, crimson flames ignite, illuminating the dim streets.

Li Wei fought the Level 4 Corrupted One for dozens of rounds before finally killing him, and a black crystal appeared in his hand.

Li Wei had tried to refine and absorb the power within using Owens' method, but he was unsuccessful.

His Nightmare Dragon Seed and Death Seed seem to reject, or rather despise, this power.

On the contrary, the monstrous insect Leon can absorb the energy within and evolve.

"There are also corrupted beings here in Hades City. It seems that this world of ashes is completely finished... There may not be many normal people like Owens left. Where have those powerful kings of ashes gone?"

Li Wei left the Ash World, carrying a bellyful of questions, and returned to the Wizard's Tower.

"Forget it, I was originally planning to explore the Ash World to see if there were any treasures. Now it seems that this world is nothing but ashes and corruption, not worth exploring at all..."

Li Wei murmured to himself, flicked his finger, and a copper coin flew into the air.

"The Unyielding Ginza Owens!"

With Livy's call.

"Halfman" Owens appeared with an excited expression.

"Tell me, who do you want to fight? Perfect timing to test my newly mastered sword technique, Raven Flowing Wind Slash!"

"You're not fighting anyone, so what's your strength now?" Li Wei asked.

"Thanks to you, I have successfully advanced to the fourth level of Gray Swordsman. No one in our Windmill Village has ever been as strong as me. If my great-grandfather were still alive, he would be very happy to see my achievements now."

"That's right, you're still in Windmill Village?" Li Wei asked.

"yes."

"Next, I may need your help. You should improve your strength as much as possible and prepare for the big battle."

"no problem."

After Owens left, Levi threw the black crystal to the worm Leon.

Lyon ate with great relish.

After devouring many crystals and souls, this strange insect is now as powerful as an ordinary fourth-ring wizard.

Li Wei dared not let it become too powerful, lest it slip out of his control.

"With Owens and Mind Flayer added to the mix, I have quite a few fourth-ring combatants at my disposal... The upcoming trip to the Frozen Realm shouldn't be a problem."

……

Time flies, day and night.

The year 1125 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, the month of wheat fields.

The Great Expedition is in its 94th year.

Li Wei is 135 years old.

Livy spent four years in Hades, living a life of quiet seclusion.

He has already pushed his self-created Ether Meditation method to the ninth level limit.

Li Wei————

Ether Meditation Method: Level 9 (Limit, Limit Can Be Broken), Special Effect: Ether Domination.

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"To break through the limits, we need to take the most crucial step, which is... the liquefaction of mental energy!"

Levi placed his hand on the Klein crystal.

【Mental Power: 200】

[Spell Power: 8000]

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Li Wei's mental strength had reached 200 points, which was the perfect state of a third-circle wizard.

My magical power has reached its limit!

In his mind, the gaseous magic ring composed of mental energy particles was already close to perfect, and it was difficult to add even the slightest bit more.

To go a step further, one must condense spiritual energy dew at the center of the gaseous magic ring to purify the quality of spiritual energy.

vaporizes into liquid.

That way it can accommodate more!

Once a single drop is condensed, one has entered the Fourth Ring Road.

"Everything is ready, except for two things: the construction of the third talent spell and the concoction of the succubus potion."

In the year 1070 of the Holy Radiance Calendar, at the age of 80, he entered the Third Ring Road. Now at 135 years old, the Third Ring Road is complete, spanning fifty years... That's a decent pace.

Next, we'll prepare the third talent spell while waiting for news from the Mind Flayer.

Even after preparing the third talent spell, you still can't obtain the Succubus's Heal.

Then I'll just advance using the [Deep Water Potion]!

9600 words today, 3000 extra words added, 6000 words still owed.

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